There has been GREAT debate about the cause of the Hindenburg disaster. Many people point not to the hydrogen but the makeup of the exterior (skin fabric)...
Proponents (http://www.dwv-info.de/pm/hindbg/hbe.htm) of the "flammable fabric" theory point out that the coatings on the fabric contained both iron oxide and aluminium impregnated cellulose acetate butyrate. Cellulose acetate butyrate is well known to be flammable and iron oxide is well known to react with aluminium powder. In fact, iron oxide and aluminium are sometimes used as components of solid rocket fuel or thermite. (However, the oft-cited claim that the ship was "coated in rocket fuel" is a significant overstatement.) While the coating compenents were potentially reactive, they were separated by a layer of material that should have inhibited the reaction from starting.
Actually you can get the original movies on LaserDisc off of Ebay and then do a transfer to DVD if you really want them on DVD. It would be legal to do so.
NO matter WHAT DRM is implemented. Somebody will make a high quality first generation rip from taking a cable and going from line out -----> to line in on their sound card and then the cat is out of the bag.
Quality wise....the fact that it's not a straight digital copy will only bother the purists.
I just saw the restored (and enhanced) version of THX1138 at the theater and I was pretty impressed. It looked like the film was done yesterday.
The enhancements are questionable, but the restoration process worked wonderfuly. The newer process Lowry uses is able to keep some "grain" in the film depending on how much the director wants.
It did not have the "hard" look of a digital film.
Dude....bad karma will catch up to ya. No matter how much you think it will not. If you do things "the fun way" I gaurantee you that somehow...someway it will come back to bite you in the ass.
Good reply. Although Genetics is often the case people use when thinking about this subject, there are already drugs on the market that are safe but prescribed for medical conditions that are known to benefit regular people as well.
A good example that many college students know is Ritalin (Methylphenidate ). I'm just using this as an example, there are others. Ritalin is fairly safe (you can argue this point, but the drug has been on the market for a LONG time). It's well documented that Methylphenidate improves the ability of people WITHOUT ADHD as well as people with the condition.
There is a reason that college students have tried to get hold of it before taking tests!
Drug manufacturers have the expertise and knowledge to create substances (non genetic altering substances) that have a variety of effects that are safe.
But none of them are marketed to people without illness. Why not? Is there some FDA rule that says that a drug designed to improve attention span MUST be only used by people with attention span difficulty?
I find it interesting that whenever we read about a possible discovery that could "enhance" a normal human (like the recent slashdot article on the mouse that got muscles from injections) or this one that scientists ALWAYS take great pains to point out that their research is ALWAYS to "understand" or to help people with disorders.
Why CANT we do research on human enhancement? What's ethically wrong with looking for ways to make us "Better...stronger...faster...smarter" by science? It's as if there is some un-written rule somewhere that most medical researchers that say " Though shalt not ever engage in research for the purpose of enhancing humans over the norm"
I've have some powerbook owners who would like to be able to run Yellowdog but off of an external Firewire drive. Last I checked Yellowdog did not support this. Does anybody know what the status is on this feature.
Even though having a dual boot system is fairly safe "if you know what you are doing" there are people who don't want to muck with their OS X disk.
Slashdot Mirror
I use Packet 8 communications at $19.95 with no problem. Since it's cheaper than either Vonage or AT&T why was it not mentioned?
Did you make the edit to the wikipedia entry? It's no good if people like yourself don't add important stuff!
There has been GREAT debate about the cause of the Hindenburg disaster. Many people point not to the hydrogen but the makeup of the exterior (skin fabric)...
Main Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster
From Wikipedia:
Proponents (http://www.dwv-info.de/pm/hindbg/hbe.htm) of the "flammable fabric" theory point out that the coatings on the fabric contained both iron oxide and aluminium impregnated cellulose acetate butyrate. Cellulose acetate butyrate is well known to be flammable and iron oxide is well known to react with aluminium powder. In fact, iron oxide and aluminium are sometimes used as components of solid rocket fuel or thermite. (However, the oft-cited claim that the ship was "coated in rocket fuel" is a significant overstatement.) While the coating compenents were potentially reactive, they were separated by a layer of material that should have inhibited the reaction from starting.
Actually you can get the original movies on LaserDisc off of Ebay and then do a transfer to DVD if you really want them on DVD. It would be legal to do so.
I'll be likely to see half-life in my NEXT life :(
laserdisc player = $40 bucks
http://search.ebay.com/laserdisc-player
and as for shipping overseas....I'm sure you could find somebody who is on the same CONTINENT as you are.
As for being a starving student....I feel for ya...
Why don't you look on ebay....the laserdiscs are NOT hard to find for the entire series
http://search.ebay.com/star-wars-laserdisc
From Robocop:
"I'll buy that for a dollar!"
NO matter WHAT DRM is implemented. Somebody will make a high quality first generation rip from taking a cable and going from line out -----> to line in on their sound card and then the cat is out of the bag.
Quality wise....the fact that it's not a straight digital copy will only bother the purists.
yea but is there a difference between drinking a Corona vs a skull crusher or Mckewens at nearly 10% alcohol per bottle.
If I can only drink one beer then I'd rather drink the latter....
I just saw the restored (and enhanced) version of THX1138 at the theater and I was pretty impressed. It looked like the film was done yesterday.
The enhancements are questionable, but the restoration process worked wonderfuly. The newer process Lowry uses is able to keep some "grain" in the film depending on how much the director wants.
It did not have the "hard" look of a digital film.
The Coral Webcache of which there was a recent slashdot story http://it.slashdot.org.nyud.net:8090/article.pl?si d=04/08/28/2330252&tid=95&tid=218
runs on Planetlab.
Dude....bad karma will catch up to ya. No matter how much you think it will not. If you do things "the fun way" I gaurantee you that somehow...someway it will come back to bite you in the ass.
I've seen it....it happens
Big deal...
Go buy an 802.11a access point...and operate at 5Ghz
Sure....it costs more and has less range but it should be adequate.
Hey Taco....
The link to the investor website is slashdotted...why did'nt you use a coral link...
Actually trackers are only a list of IP addressess and not chunks....
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/coral/stats/
Many times it seems a bittorrent tracker is down due to bandwidth issues. If I "corralized" it...could this alleiviate the problem?
Just designate him a "Person of Interest"
yea.....but you'll buy HL 2 anyway...
Good reply. Although Genetics is often the case people use when thinking about this subject, there are already drugs on the market that are safe but prescribed for medical conditions that are known to benefit regular people as well.
A good example that many college students know is Ritalin (Methylphenidate ). I'm just using this as an example, there are others. Ritalin is fairly safe (you can argue this point, but the drug has been on the market for a LONG time). It's well documented that Methylphenidate improves the ability of people WITHOUT ADHD as well as people with the condition.
There is a reason that college students have tried to get hold of it before taking tests!
Drug manufacturers have the expertise and knowledge to create substances (non genetic altering substances) that have a variety of effects that are safe.
But none of them are marketed to people without illness. Why not? Is there some FDA rule that says that a drug designed to improve attention span MUST be only used by people with attention span difficulty?
I find it interesting that whenever we read about a possible discovery that could "enhance" a normal human (like the recent slashdot article on the mouse that got muscles from injections) or this one that scientists ALWAYS take great pains to point out that their research is ALWAYS to "understand" or to help people with disorders.
Why CANT we do research on human enhancement? What's ethically wrong with looking for ways to make us "Better...stronger...faster...smarter" by science? It's as if there is some un-written rule somewhere that most medical researchers that say " Though shalt not ever engage in research for the purpose of enhancing humans over the norm"
You can create a CGI Kirk? What Apache module allows that? And do you do it in Python or Perl?
I've have some powerbook owners who would like to be able to run Yellowdog but off of an external Firewire drive. Last I checked Yellowdog did not support this. Does anybody know what the status is on this feature.
Even though having a dual boot system is fairly safe "if you know what you are doing" there are people who don't want to muck with their OS X disk.
Ok...I only used them because National Geo is particularly Heavy.
Maybe I should of used old copied of "Run" or "AmigaWorld".....or old copies of Byte...